Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 49

              all friends and guests of the university are cordially invited to visit the office of admissions during this annoal open house week-end the director and as sistant director will be in their offices on the second floor of the alumni memorial building from 1 to 5 p m and from 7 to 9 p m and will be glad to meet visitors who would like to discuss mat ters pertaining to college students who plan to enter college next fall or who are considering courses for their sen ior year in high school are spe cifically invited to confer about their particular problems par ents who are visiting the campus may be assured that we shall be glad to meet them and to con sider with them the various as pects of admission to college wray h congdon director of admissions funk defends public utilities william g mccaa bethlehem lodge of elks and was active as an officer in the pennsyl vania state photographers associa tion of america bull to speak on induction the white house washington d c april 29 1935 my dear mr maxwell i appreciate your cordial invi tation to attend the annual open house at lehigh university and regret that the pressure of official duties pre vents me from accepting i am sure the exhibits and displays you are planning will be of in estimable value to your school and i wish you every success in your endeavor very sincerely yours signed franklin d roosevelt this letter has been added to the collection of letters from all but two presidents which are on exhibition in the treasure room of the library will present variety night william g billy mccaa who died last saturday was the official lehigh photographer for 32 years and during four of these years he served as a professor of chemistry here mr mccaa first came to bethle hem in 1901 and after several years in business he was named in structor of photo - chemistry a course for senior chemical engin eers he served under prof wil liam h chandler formerly head of the department of chemistry until the latter's death in 1906 at that time the course in photo-chemistry was discontinued mr mccaa continued to serve as official photographer however un til his death all photographs in the epitome during this time have been by the mccaa studios these stu dios will be continued by mr mc caa's oldest son david j mccaa william donald mccaa another son is taking a business course at lehigh and is a member of the class of 36 he is a member of the varsity football team studied classical music mr mccaa was 60 years old he was a native of lancaster county and received his education there his father wished him to become a doctor but this work did not ap peal to him and upon the sugges tion of his mother he took up the study of classical music he special ized in the violin later he became interested in chemistry and photo graphy and moved to south beth lehem he bought the photography establishment of emil schrempel on adams street and went into business shortly after leaving lehigh he sold his original business and d u to hold fete tonight will celebrate fiftieth anniversary of chap ter's origin banquet about 80 alumni of the lehigh chapter of delta upsilon fraternity are expected to attend the fiftieth anniversary banquet of the chapter at 7 o'clock this evening at the saucon valley country club john killmer 23 now engaged in research metallurgy for the bethlehem steel company will be master of ceremonies and r m eichner president of the house will welcome the guests and speak in behalf of the undergraduates freeman galpin a member of the faculty of syracuse university is to be the speaker he is the author of one hundred years of delta up silon three of the surviving charter members are to be guests o*f honor these men all graduates of the class of 1888 are h s miner chief chemist of the welsbach company arid inventor of the welsbach gas mantle c s parker superinten dent of the new york central lines and h s morrow president of the morrow-smith company of wilkensburg unable to attend another living charter member is c p pollack who is at present on the west coast and is unable to attend the celebration it is expect ed that some officers of the national fraternity will attend but the house has not heard definitely says h e lore recording secretary prof p m palmer head of the college of arts and science will be the faculty representative at the banquet another faculty member who will be present is g e doan associate professor of physical met allurgy a member of the fraternity who aided in making arrangements for this evening's affair to give souvenirs a souvenir of the occasion will be a 15,000 word history of the chapter with photographs which was writ ten by edward l forstall 20 a copy will be given to each member the lehigh chapter of delta up silon was installed oct 10 1885 at ceremonies held at the american hotel in allentown charles evans hughes now chief justic of the united states officiated the chap ter's present house the first to be built on the campus was built in 1909 yellow jack presentation and brown and white radio broadcast are evening's features ah departments cooperating in exhibits and displays lectures are to be given in coppee packer halls packard fritz laboratories plans were completed last night for open house with a rehearsal which lasted from 7 to 8 o'clock military students went on duty at 12:30 this afternoon and guests were arriving on the campus at 1 o'clock an hour before the time set for opening last night's rehearsal ran off smoothly except for the failure of the electricity which was quickly repaired everything appeared to be in readiness the members of the rotc unit who are to act as guides and guards were drilled in their duties these men have been divided into two shifts one serving in the afternoon and the other in the evening special features planned for this evening include a dramatic produc tion and a radio broadcast the broadcast is being sponsored by the brown and white and the public will be admitted a musical pro gram and an address by vice pres ident natt m emery will be fea tured broadcasting starts at 7:30 to present jellow jack mustard and cheese club will present yellow jack at 8:15 in drown hall admission is by ticket only and may be obtained from the union or alumni offices the journalism department is maintaining an information booth near the flag pole where directories are obtainable this department in addition is conducting a display with lectures and exhibits of all phases of newspaper work short wave police broadcasting will also be shown the chemistry department is dis playing the oldest drug store in the united states the chemical mu seum is also open for inspection in the physics building there are two floors of exhibits and in wilbur laboratory there are displays of similar nature displays munitions the military department has a collection of arms and ammunition and plans of a military organization in the armory the use of several pieces will be explained by capt charles h keck who is in charge of this display research work will be shown in fritz laboratory other civil engin eering work is on display on the main floor of packer hall advertise ing and business equipment consti tute the exhibit of the business de continued on page six astronomers elect donald b wheeler chosen society president donald b wheeler william h roadstrum and joseph parment all eng 38 were elected respectively president vice president and secre tary-treasurer of the ernest w brown astronomical society at their meeting of this year on wed nesday evening in the sayre obser vatory after the regular meeting the members of the society under the direction of ralph n van arnam instructor in astronomy and mathe matics turned the telescope to ve nus mars jupiter and the bee hive star cluster in preparation for this evening's open house exhibit the club made plans to meet the day of registration to arrange sche dules into which an astronomy course could be inserted operation of placement office may be watched by visitors the placement office in the alumni memorial building will be open for those visitors who may be interested in the operation and ser vice rendered by the office an nounces john a brodhead director of the placement bureau a large chart in the form of a flow sheet has been drawn up to represent graphically the functions of the bureau will address lehigh val ley chapter of metal organization monday major r a bull consultant for the ajax electrothermic corporation will give an illustrated lecture on induction melting and heat trea ing at the pre-sectional meeting of the lehigh valley chapter of the american society for metals monday evening at 8 p m in wil liams hall in his talk major bull will ex plain high frequency induction fur naces for the melting of steel he will also describe certain features of induction equipment that lend themselves satisfactorily to heat treatment and to the heating of sol id objects that receive an applica tion of paint lacquer or other ma terial for protective purposes need ing to be dried or baked as a final casting operation major bull is well known as a consultant on steel castings and has had wide experience as inspec tor works-manager vice president and general manager of steel foun dry companies he was the recip ient of the joseph s seaman gold medal in 1927 for contributions to the foundry industry and is a past president of the american foundry men's association he received the rank of major in the ordnance de partment of the united states army dr northup who received an honorary doctor of science degree from lehigh in 1932 for inventions in pyrometers and furnaces will also attend the meeting and will an swer questions that may arise from electrical engineers who are fam iliar with induction dr corwm history pro fessor at princeton says united states constitu tion not constitutional faculty members also attend banquet to be here next year eleven of the newly initiated members of phi beta kappa na tional honorary scholarship society journey to easton last evening to attend the annual initiatio banquet held in conjunction with the lafay ette chapter of phi beta kappa the banquet was held at the hotel easton the fraternity was addressed by dr corwin profesor of history at princeton dr corwin spoke on the constitution of the united states he contends that the constitution is itself unconstiutional and that it has no more value as a law than the decisions of the supreme court in accordance with the policy of rotating the place of holding the banquet it will be held some place in bethlehem next year new members attend the new members attending were william bamert bus paul budura arts thomas butterfield arts walter deemer arts john diefenbach arts samuel efron arts eugene henry bus edgar miller arts malcolm muir arts rohn truell eng phys and john wyatt arts other initiated on mach 29 but unable to attend the banquet included james clark bus carl e collander c e and arts william gallaway eng phys william johnson met eng and edwin a sawyer bus among the faculty atteding were professors bradford cowin gip ident emery and d l kemmerer instructor in economics officers of the fraternity at the pesent time ac pof j b reynolds president prof c j goodwin vice president prof p m palmer secretary and prof r b cowin treasurer j.m toohy breaks pelvis in accident associate in languages gets hurt in auto accident john m toohy associate profes sor of romance languages received a fracture of a bone in the pelvic region during the easter holidays when he was struck by a truck near his summer home at new milford conn professor toohy his family and mr fame an instructor in romance languages were spending the holi days at his home it was while mr toohy was on his way to visit his neighbors that the truck driven by an intoxicated motorist struck him professor toohy was taken to the new milford hospital where x-rays revealed the fracture he is not ex pected to be able to meet his classes during the rest of the semester they have been divided among the members of his department grocery clerk attends lehigh for four years with only 10 professor hibshman and haring to conduct small groups on tour of grounds buildings visitors will have luncheon at armory then see games lehigh will entertain more than 400 prospective students tomorrow in the annual sub-freshman day exercises according to andrew e buchanan general chairman of the committee in charge and john w maxwell who is assisting him the program for the day is sim ilar to that of last year it in cludes tours registration and in the afternoon four sports events the committee has profited by the ex perience in previous years says maxwell and we feel that the present set up will be the best ever registration of guests in the fac ulty room of the alumni memorial building will be held from 9 to 10:30 a m about 50 upperclass men under the supervision of pro fessors hibshmann and haring are to conduct small groups on a tour of the buildings and grounds fraternity men represented this group of guides includes representatives of all the fraternity houses and members of arcadia after the general assembly at the packard laboratory auditorium vis itors will report to the rooms in the laboratory to which they were as signed when they registered here they will meet faculty guides who will conduct them to points of es pecial interest around the campus rooms which the various depart ments will occupy for this purpose in packard laboratory are arts room 400 bus aud ch e 258 c e 253 e e 308 e m 367 e phys 303 m e & i e 466 met 208 at 12:30 the visitors will have luncheon at the armory as guests of the university after luncheon visitors are invited to attend exhib its in the various departments re tained from the open house pro gram of today exhibits to be shown there will be demonstrations and exhibits in bacteriology biology chemistry civil engineering elec trical engineering geology jour nalism mathematics mechanical engineering metallurgy mining en gineering physics psychology and students health service a track meet between the lehigh frosh and rutgers frosh and a baseball game between the lehigh and lafayette freshmen are sched uled to begin at 1:30 p m shortly after 3 o'clock the var sity teams will meet the rutgers track squad and the lafayette base ball team concert cancelled musical clubs of six colleges annul program the joint glee club concert which the leaders of six lehigh valley college singing groups represent ing 250 voices had planned for this spring has been cancelled states kent s putnam manager of the combined musical clubs the six choruses will not be available at one time or any day during the rest of the school sem ester is the reason for the cancella tion of the concert putnam stated that he will ask the leaders of the singing groups to maintain the es tablished connections which may make the concert possible next win ter the schools participating in the plan were lafayette college lehigh university muhlenberg college mo ravian college ad theological sem inary moravian college and sem inary for women and cedar crest college for women alumnus recent speech appears in bulletin tribute paid to lewis electric utilities are unjustly and unfairly criticized by the unthinking and uninformed consumer claims n e funk 05 in an article the public utility football which ap pears in the may alumni bulletin the article is an abstract of an address delivered by mr funk ap ril 11 here before the lehigh uni versity branch of the american in stitute of electrical engineers he bases his defense principally on the larger amount of capital in vested and the higher tax rates of the utilities as compared with oth er industries he shows that com pared with other costs of living the electric service is the only cost low er than the 1913 costs pay tribute the editors a e buchanan and j w maxwell paid tribute to r a lewis the patron saint of le high wrestling mr lewis is the sponsor of the annual dinner for the wrestling squad and also donor of the r a lewis trophy to the most outstanding freshman wrestler announcement of a bigger and better song contest for a typical lehigh song is contained in the club news walter l finlay ch e 36 in his column the student slant discusses the growth of lehigh's campus societies 50 in number he also mentions the brown and white editorial agitation for official uni versity support of lacrosse as a var sity sport chart shows fund in the chart showing alumni fund payments from september 1934 to april 1935 the classes of 1871 1874 and 1875 show perfect scores of 100 per cent contributions leading the rest of the 63 groups is the class of 84 with 78 per cent contributing the twentieth century groups are headed by the class of 1900 with 54 per cent and 1910 is a close second with 50 per cent the highest total amount paid is from the class of 1901 1,015 announcement is made of the alumni plans for saturday june 8 — alumni day including the annual meeting luncheon and parade physics club elects mallalieu elected president at business meeting frank r mallalieu jr 36 was elected president of the physics club at a short business meeting last night in the lecture room of the physics building other officers elected last night are george a brettell 36 vice president melvin l jackson 37 treasurer harold w bonner 37 secretary and albert s ogden sophomore representative dr max petersen associate pro fessor of physics was chosen fac ulty adviser in place of dr charles r larkin assistant professor of physics faculty dramatic club to offer diversified pro gram friday may 10 variety night a diversified pro gram of seven distinct features will be presented by the faculty dra matic club friday evening may 10 in drown hall the program will consist of mu sical and dance selections and the following dramatic productions a tragedy riders to the sea by john m synge a light comedy alexander's horse and an adap tation from lewis carrol's through the looking glass to wit to woo an original farce written especially for the oc casion by the rev j g cairns father of s s cairns assistant pro fessor of mathematics will be the first presentation on the program this comedy portrays the complete subjection of an entire family by a masterful and breezy lover bill although at the beginning of the play he is unknown and without power before the curtain falls bill successfully dominates the girl he desires to marry as well as her mother father and uncle five in cast the cast for this skit is as fol lows : miss blossom sindar the young daughter by mrs r d billinger bill the forceful lover by professor cairns mrs sindar blossom's mother by mrs j l graham mr sindar blossom's father by t g ehrsam instructor in english and judge beetenhoffer blossom's uncle by e h riley as sociate professor of english in addition to the entertainment listed above c w phy instructor in english will sing lyrics of the 16th and 17th centuries and miss lois cunningham will present a special dance number the chief part in complaint department another short skit will be played by mr c a harding instructor in english this production will be the first one # that the faculty dramatic club has put on in several years and is under the joint chairmanship of mrs s s cairns and mr t g ehrsam fraternity holds elections theta kappa phi recently an nounced the election of new offi cers for the coming year j ken neth cooper bus 36 was elected president w f campbell m.e 37 vice president thomas j healey e e 36 treasurer frank j wash abaugh eng 38 secretary r e kolarsey e e 38 financial secre tary r e kolarsey e e 38 fi nancial secretary e r rista bus 37 historian and representative to the intefraternity council it is possible to attend lehigh for four years study what you like and then pay your tuition after you have graduated says benjamin et tleman 21 eighteen years ago mr ettleman graduated from central high school in philadelphia and worked in a grocery store a friend came to philadelphia and asked him why he was not in some college when told of his lack of funds his friend a bethlehem tailor told of the oppor tunities offered at lehigh gives opinion of college in my town vare i come from der's a college vot lets you go four years study vat you like and after vards yen you're all finished and successful you can pay dem back and dey don't even esk interest stated his friend the tailor on his return to beth lehem took up ettleman's case with a professor who wrote and asked him to come to lehigh and look the place over the invitation was ac cepted and with 10 in his pock et mr ettleman set out for col lege on sept 27 he arrived in beth lehem and entered the offices of dr drinker natt emery and sev eral others after stating his case he was informed that the univer sity occasionally gave help to stu dents who proved themselves de serving after his first year in le high the thought of giving up never occurred to ettleman he held his ground until finally dr drinker called upon his former math pro fessor received good recqmmenda tions and consented to take a chance with him dr natt emery gave him his registration card asked him what course he wanted to take and found out to his surprise that ettleman did not know what course he wanted after dr emery told him of the courses lehigh offered he chose civil engineering pays first year's tuition mr ettleman was able to honor his notes for the first year's tuition through his own efforts before the beginning of his sophomore year and continued thereafter on his own he is now a civil engineer and a member of the new york lehigh club bethlehem pa friday may 3 1935 mccaa late photographer was lehigh professor for four years price five cents the lehigh university brown and white open house guests invited to visit office of admissions vol xlii no 49 expect 400 sub-freshmen to see sports visitors arrive before schedule for open house phi beta kappa holds banquet with lafayette opened the studio on west fourth street where it is still located in 1904 he married mary a boyle who survives him he was a charter member of the president roosevelt writes maxwell on open house member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first